Messages are objects that are being transferred between Web services that include data that the Web service uses to be able to communicate with each other. Messages include a SOAP header which usually includes standard properties which the web service its intended to (consumer) understands how to decipher information out of.
The user can look at the messages for all of Web services imported into the application by clicking on the root node of the services tree. The user can look at the messages for a specific Web service by clicking on that Web service node in the service tree. The user can also look at only messages for a specific operation by clicking on the specific operation node in the services tree.
The view message table appears in the middle frame when the user clicks on one of services, a specific Web service or operation node in the services tree. This message view table is populated with different messages depending on which node the user selects.
Root Services Node Selection: If the user selects this node the Message View table will be populated with the last 30 messages (this number is customizable and can be done by setting an option(link)) that came into the system as a whole.
Web Service Node Selection: If the user clicks on a specific Web Service node, the Message View table will be populated with the last 30 messages for any of the operation within this specific Web service. Its and aggregation of messages.
Operation Node Selection: If the user clicks on a specific operation node, the Message View table will be populated by the last 30 messages for that specific operation only.
The message content can be viewed by clicking on the date of the message in the Message View table. This page will include the different content of a specific message request and response.
Request Message: This folding has the content of the SOAP body of the message.
Request Header: This folding includes the content of the SOAP header of the message.
Request MIME Header: This folding has the actual MIME header information for the http request.
Response Message: This folding has the content of the SOAP body of the message response.
Response Header: This folding includes the content of the SOAP header of the message response.
Response MIME Header: This folding has the actual MIME header information for the http response from the provider.
Fault: This folding includes the faults generated by the Web service in this message if any.
Message Monitor List: This folding includes a table of all monitors that have acted on this message, their status and their result.